Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Of course, this requires some discipline and focus on your part, as well as the willingness to trust team members and allow them to do their jobs. I have personally used this approach in leading startups as well as large organizations, in highly technical roles as well as business development and marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2021

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Here are my thoughts on the right focus at a college or university: Take entrepreneurship courses, but major in a more specific discipline.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

These days, with the many Internet articles and new courses available, most new professionals readily cross the gap from lack of business knowledge to knowing, but many never make it over the knowing versus doing gap. by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. Don’t let the memory of past actions limit thinking.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

From experience and from information about the competition, a coach creates a playbook that contains detailed plans for actions or plays that the entire team must know without question and execute without pause in order to win games and advance toward the playoffs. Again, there is a great parallel in football coaching.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2022

I enjoyed her recommendations and real-life stories as well as her self-coaching advice, which I will paraphrase here, combined with my own insights from the field: Take a hard look in the mirror to see yourself today. Mentors and coaches are always willing to help you find creative ways around roadblocks, even ones you don’t even see.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

In 2017 we began inserting an “Inclusion Clause” into our term sheets because we believe that the culture one establishes at the earliest stages of one’s business will set out the course of how it will grow and develop. We believe that diverse teams produce diversity of thought and that this leads to better decisions and outcomes.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

That is, of course, until the small, ambitious startup is acquired by a larger, more traditional company in its sector, or the small startup goes public with angry shareholders and regulators asking difficult questions. ” Of course, we will have to wait and see whether all the talk of improved startup workplaces comes to pass.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2022

Of course, some balance is required. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. A primary focus on process leads to highly structured training classes, leaving little room for personal career development. On the other hand, I see teams with almost no process that are tremendously productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Of course, this requires some discipline and focus on your part, as well as the willingness to trust team members and allow them to do their jobs. I have personally used this approach in leading startups as well as large organizations, in highly technical roles as well as business development and marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

You must be committed to developing a growth mindset in others around you to help them aspire to new challenges and achievements. You must give them a strong sense of self-efficacy by championing autonomy, encouraging them to think big, and coaching them on areas to improve. Develop self-awareness of your triggers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2022

Of course, these are great, but they don’t happen without enlightened leadership coming first. Their experience as executive coaches and entrepreneurs gives real credibility to their assessment of some new leadership approaches that are required in business today. Benton and Kylie Wright-Ford.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

The show has become my best curator of which books to read (including my favorite of last year, The Accidental Superpower ) and my go to for understanding geopolitics of: Russia, Iran, Pakistan, China, India and of course the US. The best leaders I know encourage coaches to come in and are willing to listen to feedback about themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2023

For new entrepreneurs, leadership development efforts may be more valuable for achieving startup success than business skills development. They are excellent mentors and coaches, but have a strong need to be admired and respected in return. They find ways to bring people together, and ways to involve everyone. Perfectionist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2022

Of course, you need to be present to spot these changes, and not rely wholly on the input of others. Only willing to talk about work is a signal that someone isn’t interested in developing relationships. Perhaps your team member needs coaching on how to say “no,” or needs time off to rejuvenate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Here are my thoughts on the right focus at a college or university: Take entrepreneurship courses, but major in a more specific discipline.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2014

I’ve written about my own mom before and the role she played in shaping my life but of course you never quite appreciate the full contributions of Mom until you’re much older. So today should of course by Wife Appreciation Day as much as Mother’s Day. And Moms everywhere. And follow through.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2018

Of course, I’ll tell another harrowing story here. I was shocked and disoriented, a CEO with no idea of the urgency of the situation that was developing, since there had been no warning. I have an industrial psychology educational background but could not count upon myself to be completely objective here, of course.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2020

For new entrepreneurs, leadership development efforts may be more valuable for achieving startup success than business skills development. They are excellent mentors and coaches, but have a strong need to be admired and respected in return. They find ways to bring people together, and ways to involve everyone. Perfectionist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

It’s up to you to provide clarity around priorities, visualizing the required results, and developing a shared sense of being “in it together.” This requires embracing a team’s diversity of perspectives, and developing new agreements to support each other, be accountable, and coachable. Keep focus on the journey to a common goal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together. Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent. They are usually too self-centered to see the need for developing skills and leadership in the other members of the team, or building a succession plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2019

I found some good guidance on this subject in a new book, “ The Leader You Want To Be ,” by Amy Jen Su, a managing partner in an executive coaching and leadership development firm. Of course, there are good ways and bad ways to ask for help.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Here are my thoughts on the right focus at a college or university: Take entrepreneurship courses, but major in a more specific discipline.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2022

As a good solution developer, it’s easy for you to see team members only as components of your business solution. Of course, listening alone isn't enough. Spend time coaching and mentoring team members. You really need their insights and customer interaction feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2022

That means showing that they value each person for who they are, take interest in their development and growth, and care about excellence and results. Of course, finding personal meaning also requires effort on the part of your employees. Even with all this, I have learned that good business leadership is a journey, not a destination.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Of course, everyone thinks they know what it takes to make a great leader, and many books have been written about the subject. In this context, I was impressed with the new book, “ The Intelligent Leader ,” by John Mattone, widely regarded as the world’s number one executive coach and authority. As a mindset, it’s a way of life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together. Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent. They are usually too self-centered to see the need for developing skills and leadership in the other members of the team, or building a succession plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. I think of VCs as coaches. The best way – of course – is to reference check.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

Your role is to provide this enablement, through listening to their needs, and providing personal coaching and mentoring as required. Of course, even the best talent needs communication, training, and support to create the culture you need. Sometimes the last thing you need are people who always say “yes.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Here are my thoughts on the right focus at a college or university: Take entrepreneurship courses, but major in a more specific discipline.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

She is a coach and mentor to team members. As a firm we start by wanting to attract future partners who have worked at startups before and have developed a competence which might be marketing (Greg) or product and CEO experience (Kara) plus amazing Biz Dev experience (Hamet). But she also has the temperament, which is important.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. Working with early-stage teams : coaching, mentoring, setting strategy, rolling up sleeves: 9/10. I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5 years ago.

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Berkonomics

MAY 26, 2016

” Of course, in practice it’s not that easy. Instead of spending a lot of time managing them, invest a little quality time in coaching them. Email readers, continue here…] In addition, take advantage of the trend in the training and development space toward self–directed learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2019

Of course, some balance is required. Priority is placed on employee mentoring and coaching. A primary focus on process leads to highly structured training classes, leaving little room for personal career development. On the other hand, I see teams with almost no process that are tremendously productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2017

Also don’t confuse a business mentor with a business coach. A business mentor helps to fill an experience gap, while a coach helps fill a skill gap. A mentor’s aim is to teach you by using specific examples of what to do and how, unlike a coach who helps you develop your generic skills for deciding what to do and when.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2015

Of course, this requires some discipline and focus on your part, as well as the willingness to trust team members and allow them to do their jobs. I have personally used this approach in leading startups as well as large organizations, in highly technical roles as well as business development and marketing.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 13, 2014

But, advisors, coaches, and mentors can often fill the bill. While Bob’s post focuses on Technology Advisors and the Startup Founder Developer Gap , we also discussed advisors more broadly. In Bob’s post, he tells startup founders to get smart on product design, software architecture and development process. That’s great advice.

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